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2026

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Parsa Rajabi Province of British Columbia
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Jamie Kai Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
2025

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty Innovation Award
Kwang Moo Yi Sony Research Award Program
Google Academic Research Award
Hila Gonen Google Research
2024 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award Honourable Mention
Frederik Kunstner AAAI/ACM SIGAI
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Jamie Kai, Shukang Wang Province of British Columbia
Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral (CGS D) Program
Alan Milligan Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Alexandre St-Aubin, Simon Ghyselincks Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
CS Merit
Aida Aminian, Amirsalar Safaeighaderi, Chester Gould, Jamie Kai, Park Minju, Vivian White, Ziyu Sun UBC Computer Science
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Tamara Munzner Royal Society of Canada
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Joanna McGrenere Royal Society of Canada
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Daniel Rebain, Hae Ji Jung, Heng Zhang, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Shakiba Kheradmand, Suzuran Takikawa University of British Columbia
ISACA Vancouver OneInTech Scholarship
Soo Yee Lim Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
Killam Doctoral Scholarships
Yi Nian Niu University of British Columbia
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS D)
Yi Nian Niu Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Best Paper Award
Peter Yichen Chen SIGGRAPH 2025
Best Paper Honourable Mention
Peter Yichen Chen SIGGRAPH 2025
Best Student Paper Award
Arpan Gujarati, Vincent Bode, William Shen IEEE RTCSA 2025
USENIX Security Symposium Honourable Mention
Jonas Tai, Karthik Nishanth Sengottuvelavan, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Peter Whiting The 34th USENIX Security Symposium
AI4MATH Best Paper Award
Christos Thrampoulidis, Danica Sutherland, Wenlong Deng, Xiaoxiao Li, Yi Ren ICML 2025: 2nd AI for Math Workshop
Outstanding Paper Award
Raymond Ng, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Shruthi Chockkalingam, Vered Shwartz ACL2025: Social Influence in Conversations Workshop
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
Frederik Kunstner Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Amman Yusuf Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
EuroSys Award for PhD Thesis
Hugo Lefeuvre EuroSys 2025
Outstanding Paper ICLR 2025
Danica Sutherland, Yi Ren ICLR 2025
Dorothy Killam Fellow 2025
Mark Schmidt Killam Trust
ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025
Joanna McGrenere ACM SIGCHI 2025
Pulse Research Fellowship
Karthik Nishanth Sengottuvelavan Internet Society
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Frederic Kesha Shpilevskiy, Philip Schowitz, Rocco Tian Lang Ruan, Shivam Chandhok University of British Columbia

Service
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Notable Reviewer
Nguyen Phong Hoang The 34th USENIX Security Symposium
Student Community Building Awards
Devyani McLaren, Matt Oddo, Mayant Mukul, Rocco Ruan, Sean Bocirnea, Shivam Chandhok, Teerpaun Tanprasert UBC Computer Science
CS Faculty Mentoring Award
Chen Greif UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Finn Hackett, Jianhao Cao, Joe Poremb, Karthik Nishant, Kyle Chin, Pretty Vyas, Raymond Liu, Rosalyn Carr, Yuwei Yin UBC Computer Science
Incredible Instructor Awards
Anne Condon, Bruce Shepherd, Cinda Heeren, Patrice Belleville, Thomas Pasquier, Vered Shwartz UBC Computer Science

Undergrad Achievement
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Award for Academic Excellence
Kent Chen UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Matthew Smith UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Carolyn Huang UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Elizabeth Earle UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Arvin Sahami UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Karen Shen UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Boqiao Zhang UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
William Zhou UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Anna Friesen, Le Minh Anh Nguyen UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Yeojun Han UBC Computer Science
Gary Kusin Award for Women in Video Gaming
Hanna Gulka UBC Computer Science
Greer Family Scholarship
Patrick Zhou, Zoe Shong UBC Computer Science
Inquiring Minds in Computer Science Award
Rajrupa Sanyal UBC Computer Science
Laura Huber Memorial Award for Women in Video Gaming
Ruby Yang UBC Computer Science
Maria Klawe Service Award
Cheryl Chen, Cindy Cui UBC Computer Science
Markus Meister Memorial Prize
Boqiao Zhang UBC Computer Science
Martin Frauendorf Memorial Prize
Timothy Zhou UBC Computer Science
Project to Product Award in Computer Science
Cecilia Soroco UBC Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Sandra Radic UBC Computer Science
Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science
Arun Balamurali, Karen Shen, Kuter Bora, Leo Foord-Kelcey UBC Computer Science
Student Community Building Awards for Undergraduate Students
Alisa Dulalia, Bilal Suboor, Charlene Chiu, Emilie Ma, Hedie Mahmoudian, Iris Xu, Sarah Wong, Tara Ubovic, Zingyu Zhou UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Abigail McPhee, Anna Luo, Gary Li, Kaiser Chen, Leo Foord-Kelcey, Lucas Qin, Matthew Kang, Mina Chong, Priyanka Sangha, Ricky Lau, Robert Wang, Susan Chung, Thomson Mai UBC Computer Science
2024

Service
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty of Science Service Award
Ryan Smith Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science Service Award
Marjan Molouk-Zadeh Faculty of Science
Faculty Recruiting Support
Ana Kopic Drole, Annie Hu, Arynn Keane, Brandon Nakasato, Carol Fung, Emily Fuchs, Giuliana Villegas, Holly Kwan, Jessica Choi, Jessica McKay, Lara Hall, Laura Selander, Marjan Molouk-Zadeh, Michaela Butler, Michele Ng, Michelle Lin, Nobu Kawaguchi, Parson Poon, Sharon Craddock, Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Fostering a Collegial Environment
Brandon Nakasato UBC Computer Science
Going Above and Beyond
Vivian Leung UBC Computer Science
Supporting Research Staff Award
Marjan Molouk-Zadeh UBC Computer Science
Supporting Students and/or Educational Programs Staff award
Jessie Pan UBC Computer Science
Team Award
Ben Chen, Parson Poon UBC Computer Science
Distinguished Reviewer Award
William J. Bowman SPLASH OOPSLA Artifacts
Distinguished Reviewer Award
Alex Summers SPLASH 2024 OOPSLA
Bit Quill Technologies Award in Computer Science
Minh Anh Nguyen UBC Computer Science
Marie Klawe Service Award
Rubia Guerra, Sandra Radic UBC Computer Science
Student Community Building Awards
Laura Cang, Mara Solen, Paulette Koronkevich, Victor Sanches Portella UBC Computer Science
Rajan Family Award in Computer Science
Emilie Ma UBC Computer Science

Research
Award Recipient(s) Organization
SOSP Distinguished Artifact Award
Reto Achermann 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
SOSP Distinguished Artifact Honourable Mention
Mathias Lécuyer 30th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Best Paper Award
Margo Seltzer, Sadaf Sadeghian, Xiaoxiao Li MICCAI Workshop on Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging
BPOC Graduate Excellence Award
Gale Chen, Qiyu Wang, Ritik Vatsal, Xiaomeng Xu, Yang‐Che Tseng, Yunxiang Li University of British Columbia
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
Katherine Breen, Rocco Tian Lang Ruan, Sean Theodore Bocirnea Province of British Columbia
Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s (CGS M) Program
Floria Ziting Gu, Lin-Shuan Tu, Sean Theodore Bocirnea Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Margo Seltzer Royal Society of Canada
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship
Hanze Meng, Qiyu Wang, Yi Nian Niu University of British Columbia
Google Academic Research Award
Dongwook Yoon Google Research
SIGDIAL Best Paper Award
Chuyuan Li , Giuseppe Carenini, Yuwei Yin Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue
High Impact Award
Dongwook Yoon, Ido Roll, Joice Tang, Kyoungwon Seo, Sidney Fels ETHE 2024 (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education)
Best Paper Award
Jeff Clune ICML 2024 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
Genome BC Award
Raymond Ng Genome BC
2023 CHCCS/SCDHM Graphics Interface Early Career Researcher Award
Dongwook Yoon Graphics Interface Conference

Undergrad Achievement
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Award for Academic Excellence
Sebastian Gonzales UBC Computer Science
Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science
Taryn Wou UBC Computer Science
Student Community Building Awards for Undergraduates
Alexa Gogoescu, Angela Zhou, Carina Tze, Chloe Van, Kitty Yan, Moira Renata, Oliver Luo, Ryan Kim, Sarah Wong, Tara Ubovic, Yeojun Han UBC Computer Science
Accenture Leadership Award
Edric Antoine UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Jonathan Nah UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Romina Mahinpei UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Alexander Steele UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Sophia Chu UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Andrew Ting UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Oliver Cowley UBC Computer Science
Award for Academic Excellence
Jerry Xu UBC Computer Science
Bill Aiello Memorial Award in Computer Science
Alexander Steele UBC Computer Science
EA Award for Women in Video Gaming
Xinru Jiang UBC Computer Science

Teaching
Award Recipient(s) Organization
Faculty Teaching Awards
Aastha Mehta, Giulia Toti, Jessica Wong, Norm Hutchinson, Ronald Garcia, William Evans UBC Computer Science
Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Abner Turkieltaub, Alan Milligan, Betty Shea, Curtis Fox, Dylan Green, Frederik Kunstner, Guanxiong Chen, Kyle Chin, Laura Cang , Mara Solen, Paulette Koronkevich, Rocco Ruan, Rui Ge, Sarah Chen, Victor Portella UBC Computer Science
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants Awards
Alexander Steele, Charles Hu, Emily Chu, Harry Sadleir, Hung Dinh, Jeffrey Ho, Matthew Kang, Parsa Seyfourian, Ricky Lau, Shreyas Xen Goyal, Susan Chung, Victor Leung UBC Computer Science